[Verified Answer]: 29-year old female laboratory technician was…

29-year old female laboratory technician was admitted to the emergency room because of bloody urine. The patient said she was being treated for lupus erythematosus by a physician in a different city. She also mentioned that she had had Von Willebrand’s disease (a rare hereditary blood disorder) as a child. On the third day of her hospitalization, a medical student mentioned to the resident that she had seen this patient several weeks before at a different hospital in the area where the patient had been admitted for the same problem. A search of the patient’s belongings revealed a cache of anticoagulant medication. When confronted with this information, she refused to discuss the matter and hurriedly signed out of the hospital against medical advice.